Done and Done...

       From getting things done with books to cleaning, fixing our dryer, and having the worst migraine I’ve had in months, possibly this entire year. Life was rough, but I was rougher. I feel accomplished but sore.

New header has a damask background with the new logo in the middle and fiery wings to either side.
In the foreground are the NEW COVERS for the books, which I showed off on my social media this week, along with the bookmarks, stickers, rubber duckies, LIMITED EDITION Tee Shirt, & Collector's Slip Case!!

Author's Life:

If you wanna skip all the details here’s the fast version:
    Books were edited, many art pieces were made, books were submitted, I’m not going to Indie Author Day today, and I fixed our dryer only to realize it’s on it’s last leg…

Here’s the week in review:

• Saturday:
  I finished editing A Broken Redeemer!
  
  
• Sunday: 
  I wrote the epilogue before heading to bed, and then created art, and wrote a short story that happens in one of the toughest scenes in said book
  • Side Note: A Broken Redeemer is the hardest and darkest book in the series. If you skip it and go right to An Angel’s Advent, I don’t blame you. If you want to read it and skip the darkest bits. Don’t read chapter 8 or 9, and skip right to 10 maybe 11. Then skip the end of chapter 20.
• Monday:
  I cleaned for 3.5 hours on Monday, which left me shaky and in pain. It’d been piling up for a few weeks. Got to visit with my Nana for a half hour, and then my body and brain crashed out, cause I didn’t get a lot of sleep the night before.
  
  
• Tuesday:
  I woke up with my brain running a million miles an hour panicking about Indie Author Day. When I tried my normal “fixes” to handle my anxiety, my brain froze up and refused to let me think at all. I talked through it with my closest circle and decided to back out so someone else could have the table space (as there was a waiting list). Then I spent the afternoon inputting edits from Lilah, because she finished the entirety of A Broken Redeemer on Monday.
• Wednesday:
  
  • the Migraine from hell hit. I woke up with a 12/10 pain level, took my cambia, closed all the curtains and STILL had to wear sunglasses indoors and not listen to anything for a few hours because I was light and sound sensitive.
  • An early birthday present arrived to perk me up though! My Best Friend, one of my favorite people, and editors, Lilah, got me a purple leather jacket. Yes, actual Lambskin leather. I absolutely love it and will be more insufferable and intimidating than usual when I wear it (Just kidding… maybe).
• Thursday:
  
  • I spent 4 hours cleaning out the dryer, putting the new belt on it, and putting it back together. While I was cleaning it, I found wear holes on the back panel where the drum spins, so we’re going to be replacing that in around Valentine’s Day (gathering funds for it is a bit hard when paying off a car and dealing with rising cost of everything).
  • Dee, my second editor (hi!), sent me all her edits for Broken Redeemer, so I went through them, and the edits for A Brave Sacrifice from Matt (who now has Broken Redeemer).
  • Matt Also formatted A Brave Sacrifice ePub for me while I was formatting the hardcover and paperback.
• Friday:
  
  • I finished writing another short story (6k) before heading to bed.
  • Woke up sore from dealing with dryer and realized I bruised my knees. 😅
  • Early Christmas Present(s) arrived from Lilah too, she wanted to make sure they’d arrive on time. 🥰 One was a comic book I’d had in my cart, the 3rd of a series, and a Zero (Ghost dog from Nightmare Before Christmas) squishmallow.
  • Then I wrote this, played some Star Wars, and wrote more of the third short story.

November Sales/funds Goal:

Goal: $300

This month’s goal break down for transparency:
$200 medical bills to do with ankle and Follow-up visits
$100 for Emergency fund-building up again.

When this goal is met:

    If we get this met, I’ll write up a short story for Chaos since the other goal wasn’t met. AND I’ll have a raffle for anyone who contributes to the goal. $3 ko-fi donation or purchasing anything from my shop whether that’s a sticker, a digital wallpaper, commission and what now (Commissions get 3-5 entries, depending on the value). Winner will get a chibi PFP like these below.

How to contribute and enter the raffle

📱Buying ebooks from my website or anything (books or digital pictures) from my Ko-fi shop. This is the cheapest for you and quickest buy-to-bank for me. (Pre orders don't count toward the goal)

☕  Commissioning me via Ko-fi for Digital Art! I currently have sale listings for 16x9 character portraits (which can be used for Book Covers: 6 slots available) for only $50, and Chibi profile Pics for $20 (4 slots available).

🖼️ Or donate on Ko-fi or through my paypal.me link (though, I'd rather you just buy art or something in the shop🥺I feel like a burden and indebted if people just donate. entry at $3, $5, $15, $25, and $35 gets another entry)

The Books:

Writing:

      This week I’ve written the Epilogue of A Broken Redeemer, the short stories, AND: The Clueless Cowboy & the Broken Angel (final title, promise), which is now at 26,248 words!

     Total word count for this week: 12,588 words

Editing

     I finished A Broken Redeemer! Matt and April finished A Brave Sacrifice… Dee and Lilah finished A Broken Redeemer, and April had to bow out cause it’s too dark to do in 4 days… There’s too tight a time crunch for this one, due to Draft 2 Digital needing it submitted 10 days before release (November 15th).

Publishing:

𓆩⚝𓆪     𓆩⚝𓆪     𓆩⚝𓆪     𓆩⚝𓆪     𓆩⚝𓆪

the 5th Anniversary Edition of
The Kalista Chronicles: A Born Angel Trilogy

Pre-order closes December 1st

Pre Order Includes:

• Brand New Covers!
• New Edits!
• An Epilogue "from the Villain/Villains!"
• New Art
• New Sticker (The chibi Kali holding a book at the bottom of "A Brave Sacrifice")
• LIMITED EDITION Tee Shirt! (And you can buy just the tee shirt or add it on, it is NOT included in the Trilogy bundle it is STRICTLY AN ADD-ON item)
• Collectors Edition Trilogy Slipcase (To protect the books, only 8 still available)
• Options to buy the entire Trilogy come with a secret item I'm not revealing until after pre order closes.
• All Signed Copies come with complimentary ebook, but if you'd just like the eBooks, you can pre order them from the eBooks listing. 
• Note: Pre orders will not arrive by release day (They will HOPEFULLY) Arrive before Christmas, but at this point I can't guarantee that either.

If you would like to pre-order eBooks on other platforms Click Here for A Born Angel links, here for A Brave Sacrifice, and here for A Broken Redeemer because we've not finished editing them...

𓆩⚝𓆪 The Fated Angel 𓆩⚝𓆪

Coming April 9th!

Amazon won't have the eBook due to AI scraping.
If you don't like that, complain to Bezos about it.
If you want the book for your kindle you can buy it from my shop
and I can send it to your email, so you can add it to your device. 

Art Feature

      This was one of the pictures I rendered this week of the character who took over my brain to help with stress, panic, and pain. I wrote 3 short stories with her this week, and I may turn them into an anthology at some point, but for now… Have this new red headed beauty, and I will only call her La Diabla as she is the owner of the original La Diabla’s Café in the Born Angel Universe and the CEO of the company who will randomly show up and barista at any of the chains worldwide.

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Thanks for reading!

~Jenn (aka Born Angel Author)

Mark Your 2026 Calendar: 4 books!

~ August 1st: AN ANGEL ENRAGED Arc Signups open AND THE FATED ANGEL beta reading sign ups.

 ~ August 15th: Preorder for AN ANGEL ENRAGED begins!

 ~ September 4th: AN ANGEL ENRAGED ARCS go out!

 ~ September 11th - October 23rd: Beta Reading THE FATED ANGEL!

 ~ October 31st: AN ANGEL ENRAGED Release Day!

 ~ November 26th: Anniversary Rerelease of the Kalista Chronicles first Trilogy

 ~ December 31st: Cover Reveal DEATH, DESIRES, & INNER DEMONS

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